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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-06-11 03:47 PM
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4. It's a common mistake. Jack Cafferty once misused the term
Edited on Sun Nov-06-11 03:54 PM by MineralMan
on the air, and had to apologize the next day, after receiving hundreds of emails. A lot of people think it means the upper class, mistaking "hoi" for high or something. I'm just trying to help people use words correctly.

οἱ πολλοί translates directly from Greek to English as "the many."
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